Microsoft Copilot Tips and Tricks to Boost Your Productivity

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In partnership with Microsoft, Kevin demos 10 Copilot tips. In Edge, Copilot understands the current page: on a YouTube video it generates a summary with clickable timestamps and answers questions about the video (identifying the song plugin as Suno). The free mobile app can identify a photographed flower as a rose. In PowerPoint, Copilot turns a referenced Word document about opening a cookie store in India into an 18-slide branded presentation using the Kevin Cookie Company theme, complete with speaker notes and matching imagery. Typing a forward slash in Copilot lets you reference people, files, meetings or emails and ask questions without opening them. In Outlook, a plain-language prompt creates an inbox rule that pins mail from his manager Henrietta Mueller to the top with a red category. In OneDrive, Copilot can summarize, build an FAQ, answer questions about a file, and compare up to five files at once — he compares five invoices into a table of numbers, dates, bill-to and totals — noting it also suits resumes. Coaching by Copilot critiques an email’s tone and suggests wording changes instead of drafting for you. In Excel, data must first be in a table (Insert Table or Ctrl+T) and saved to OneDrive; Copilot then adds a country column for a list of cities and a count column, showing the formula it used. In Teams, Copilot recaps what a late joiner missed and lists action items. Finally, the prompt gallery and Copilot Lab provide inspiration filterable by app, task and job type.

Key takeaways

• Copilot in Edge is page-aware: it can summarize a YouTube video with clickable timestamps and answer questions about the page’s content
• In PowerPoint, use ‘Create a presentation from’ with a slash-referenced Word file to generate a branded deck — 18 slides with speaker notes in the demo
• A forward slash in any Copilot prompt references people, files, meetings or emails, so you can query a document or meeting without opening it
• OneDrive Copilot can compare up to five selected files at once into a table, and Outlook Copilot can create inbox rules from a plain-language description
• Copilot in Excel requires the data to be in a table and the file saved in OneDrive first; it can then add derived columns and shows the formulas it used

Episode details: published September 12, 2024 · 15:32 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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